(**Added Comment: Don’t you love the word they use……Attack***)

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[Moderator’s Note: In response to today’s early morning and attack and eviction of Occupy Wall Street, a number of international labor leaders condemned the police action of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Later this morning, lawyers for Occupy Wall Street got Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings to sign an order at 6:30 AM that explicitly said the protestors should be allowed back in Zuccotti Park with “tents and other property.” New York Mayor Bloomberg in defiance of this court ruling said the city would wait and see what a full court panel would rule later this afternoon. A ruling had been expected by 3:00, however as of 5:00 p.m. EST no such ruling had been issued.

***UPDATE TO THIS BELOW****

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RWDSU President Appelbaum’s Statement on Occupy Eviction

The illegal eviction of protestors from Zuccotti Park was
cowardly and irresponsible. City Hall knows it was an
indefensible act – that’s why it was carried out in the
middle of the night and reporters were kept at arms length
and prevented from covering the full story.

Mayor Bloomberg should apologize to the media and to the
protestors whose constitutional rights were trampled on by
his militaristic misadventure. He has escalated tensions
unnecessarily and shown an alarming lack of judgment and
leadership.

He needs to recognize that the Occupy movement is not about
geography or a specific location. It’s about calling
attention to unacceptable forms of economic inequality and
injustice in this city, around the country, and throughout
the world. It’s about allowing long-ignored voices to speak
out.

He has grown more defiant and tone-deaf to the concerns of
the 99% in recent days precisely because he is governing the
city as an all-too-proud spokesman for the 1%. He has yet to
learn a simple lesson: how to listen.

“The right to protest and free assembly are sacrosanct in
our country,” said UAW President Bob King. “Mayor Bloomberg
has been publicly critical of raising taxes on the 1 percent
and the message of Occupy Wall Street. The manner in which
this raid was carried out can only lead one to believe that
the mayor was doing the bidding of Wall Street once again.

“Cities across the country from Oakland to Portland and
Chapel Hill took similar reprehensible actions, raiding
encampments across the country in military fashion,” King
added.

“Occupy Wall Street has driven home the stark reality of
corporate greed and the ever-widening income gap in
America,” said Julie Kushner, director of UAW Region 9A,
which covers the northeast, including New York City. “It is
highly suspicious that on the eve of a day of national
action focusing on Wall Street, Mayor Bloomberg chooses to
come in under the cover of darkness to squash the voice of
the people.”

Both King and Kushner heralded New York Supreme Court
Justice’s Lucy Billing’s order directing the city to allow
the protesters to return to the park and resume their lawful
protest.

Kushner noted that Billings once worked as a legal services attorney in a program where the UAW represents the staff attorneys, legal workers and clerical staff.

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Tarps and Tents Don’t Make a Movement

They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they
can’t slow down the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The 99% is undaunted. Occupy Wall Street’s message has
already created a new day. This movement has created a
seismic shift in our national debate – from austerity and
cuts to jobs, inequality and our broken economic system.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been committed to peaceful, non-violent action from its inception,(?) and it will
keep spreading.

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it, these
protests are “as American as apple pie.” Americans must be
allowed to speak out against pervasive inequality, even if
the truth discomfits the 1%.

The AFL-CIO will do everything in our power to make sure the
free speech rights of these peaceful protesters are
protected.

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***UPDATE to the above: Judge Billings was NOT allowed to hear the arguments about closing down Zuccatti Park.**

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Do members of the above Unions, The AFL-CIO, the UAW, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and the UFCW (UnitedFood and Commercial Workers Unions REALIZE they are NOW being looked upon as Marxists/Communists by proxy?

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Newspeak:

n.Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.

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December 23, 1776

Excerpt:

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.